North Africa’s Regional Power Struggle

Too often, the Western Sahara conflict is viewed as the root cause of tensions between Algiers and Rabat. Analyzing Algeria-Morocco relations through the lens of this conflict is, however, not only incomplete but, more importantly, largely incorrect. As academic Yahia Zoubir underlines in his piece The Algerian-Moroccan Rivalry: Constructing the Imagined Enemy, “Algeria and Morocco’s [...]